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SUMMARY:Leopoldina-Symposium "The Legacy of Sir John C. Eccles"
DESCRIPTION:Wissenschaftliche Vorbereitung: Alfons Labisch ML (Düsseldorf) 
 Sir John C. Eccles (1903-1997), Nobel Prize winner and one of the most impo
 rtant neurophysiologists of the 20th century, studied for the Ph.D. with Si
 r Charles S. Sherrington and later became his assistant. Sir John thus repr
 esents the second generation of this discipline, one now embedded in neuros
 cience.His neurophysiological research pioneered understanding of the synap
 se and signal transmission in the central nervous system. He alsosought a d
 ialogue with philosophers, especially Karl Popper, and through his own writ
 ings pursued a life-long interest in the mind-brain problem dating from his
  student days in Australia.His large collection of manuscripts and internat
 ional correspondence is being catalogued at the Institute for the History o
 f Medicine of Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf. To launch historical r
 esearch in Neuroscience, the Symposium firstly illustrates the personal imp
 act of Eccles’ work on his students, their careers and the new schools to w
 hich they themselves gave rise. Secondly, the long-term and continuing impa
 ct of his pioneering work on motoneurones, the spinal cord, synaptic transm
 ission, hippocampus, cerebellum, thalamus, as well as philosophical issues,
  will be evidenced. Accordingly, the Symposium will be a rich blend of Sir 
 John's influence on the scholars who worked directly with him, later on the
 ir own schools and on the fields of research reviewed in 'state of the art'
  lectures by leading neuroscientists.
LOCATION:Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste,
  Palmenstrasse 16, D-40217 Düsseldorf
DTSTAMP:20251112T170935Z
DTSTART:20110910T070000Z
DTEND:20110911T120000Z
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